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Some background checks may reveal to your next employer that you had these jobs, even for a very short period of time.
How about "It just took me a while to find the next thing I wanted to do." Then your explanation make sense whether they think you took a break or find out that you left a job quickly.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and point out that apparently this is the kind of place where people can in fact fall asleep during work hours, even during calls. That opens up a lot of possibilities. How about doing the bare minimum and working on bettering your skills on your own? Or even do some side hustle?
If done correctly, this isn’t doing the bare minimum - it’s actually going above and beyond. What he didn’t clarify is whether or not somebody is breathing down his neck to produce results. If they are, then he needs to push back on that person that he needs some help getting up to speed. If not, he can spend as much time as he wants/needs learning the existing codebase - write some unit tests, try to create an isolated testing environment, do some profiling, read up on all of the libraries/frameworks/tools that the product uses… find useful (but relatively safe, for now) things to do. That may be what they actually want from him. I personally wouldn’t be in a hurry to find a job where somebody was handing you daily assignment, but I also wouldn’t take unreasonable advantage of the situation - if you don’t have a specific task to work on, do something that’s at least work related.
I've had this type of job before. Twice actually. One was for 2 weeks (which I left for personal reasons not job related), and the other was a similar situation to yours (which I left after 4 months). I just didn't list them on my resume/application at places I applied to later. When asked about the gaps, "I just needed to take some time off. For N years, I've never really taken a long vacation so decided to do that"…
Some background checks may reveal to your next employer that you had these jobs, even for a very short period of time.
Most checks are just to make sure you didn't steal your SSN (or using a dead person's one), and very high-level felony check.
This is for tech jobs only though. Other industries are more strict.
Some tech startups don't even bother with bg-checks at all.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and point out that apparently this is the kind of place where people can in fact fall asleep during work hours, even during calls. That opens up a lot of possibilities. How about doing the bare minimum and working on bettering your skills on your own? Or even do some side hustle?
A side hustle on company time and equipment? That might not be as good an idea as you portray!
Mostly because the employer had enough money to keep a lot of staff and make them do bullshit projects, half of which wouldn't reach production.
Only instance when someone got a slap on the wrist was when they, ahem, showed the wrong demo. Hilariously enough the only objection here was the perpetrator used company equipment.
The guy who got escalated for going to the swimming pool during work hours(even thought he stayed later to make up for the lost time) upon hearing that was furious.
I would say that's standard practice, on both sides of the table. Everyone tries to put their best foot forward in an interview. Anything not written in the contract might simply have been said to try to close the deal.
Large companies are not known for their amenability to change.
No real manager and colleagues who sleep during the day? This sounds like a dream job. You're free to do what you want. Don't rush and quit, work on whatever interests you. If Agile, "transformation" and "change" floats your boat - start doing that. If you really want a job doing something else, start training yourself for those interviews
No real manager and colleagues who sleep during the day? This sounds like a dream job. You're free to do what you want. Don't rush and quit, work on whatever interests you. If Agile, "transformation" and "change" floats your boat - start doing that. If you really want a job doing something else, start training yourself for those interviews
No real manager and colleagues who sleep during the day? This sounds like a dream job. You're free to do what you want. Don't rush and quit, work on whatever interests you. If Agile, "transformation" and "change" floats your boat - start doing that. If you really want a job doing something else, start training yourself for those interviews